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From:	"Halim, Salman" <salman AT bluestone DOT com>
To:	Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject:	RE: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:00:43 -0500
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i wonder if the problem is resolved if quotes are used instead of
backslashes?  (i use bash so can't check this; it works either way on bash.)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 3:52 PM
> To: Steve Kelem; Cygwin; christos AT zoulas DOT com
> Subject: Re: pathname with spaces causes problems for tcsh
> 
> 
> Pathnames with spaces are a problem, period.  By the time 
> that pushd got the
> argument the backslashes had been removed and pushd passed to 
> setenv more than
> one argument thus the complaint.
> 
> You'll have to modify the source of tcsh to fix this problem.
> 
> Earnie.
> 
> P.S.: This problem would exist on UNIX if the directory 
> contained spaces.
> 
> --- Steve Kelem <kelem AT adaptivesilicon DOT com> wrote:
> > I'm running tcsh 6.09.00 from the Cygwin 1.0 release on NT 4.0 SP6.
> > When I type
> > pushd /c/My\ Download\ Files/Cygnus/Xfree/
> > it responds:
> > /c/My Download Files/Cygnus/Xfree /
> > setenv: Too many arguments.
> > % which pushd
> > pushd: shell built-in command.
> > % pwd
> > /c/My Download Files/Cygnus/Xfree
> > 
> > This indicates that it works, but the complaint is odd.
> > 
> > Steve Kelem
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> > fn:Steve Kelem
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